The Sun and All Its Eyes, a paper written for Radical Love – A Concentration Camp for Critical Thinking 2010

Photograph by Andreas Von Knobloch

This performative paper was written about a trip to Knock, Co. Mayo in 2009 where 10,000 people gathered in the hope of experiencing a vision of the Virgin Mary. The gatherings were directed by the predictions of a clairvoyant and were criticised by the Catholic Church at the time. The paper discusses in a narrative fashion this impulse for a renegade religious ecstatic experience in a time of recession and child abuse revelations in Ireland.

The camp was concieved of by Joseph Noonan Ganley and Sam Keogh. Further information and a pdf of a publication of the event, containing all the papers including The Sun and All Its Eyes can downloaded here.